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Maxthon Max-3 Beats Chrome in Independent Speed Tests
BEIJING, Sept 25, 2009 /PRNewswire-Asia via COMTEX/ --
When an alpha version of Maxthon's
Max-3 went head-to-head recently in benchmark tests conducted by the website
Download Squad ( http://tinyurl.com/download-squad-maxthon ), Maxthon's new
browser beat Google Chrome in four of the seven tests and in the overall score.
Writer Lee Mathews used the V8 Benchmark Suite
( http://v8.googlecode.com/svn/data/benchmarks/v3/run.html ) to test the two
browsers in various tasks they must perform to display a website on the screen.
The two browsers scored as follows (higher numbers, shown in boldface,
indicate faster operations):
Maxthon Max-3 Google Chrome
Richards 3,328 3,286
DeltaBlue 2,962 3,388
Crypto 2,823 2,725
RayTrace 4,576 4,160
EarleyBoyer 5,197 4,361
RegExp 976 946
Splay 4,692 5,594
Overall 3,143 3,127
Max-3 won four of the seven benchmark tests and the overall score running
an alpha version of the browser that will be released early next year.
Downloads of the free alpha version of Max-3 are available at
http://dl.maxthon.cn/mx3/mx3.0.3.3.exe .
"Maxthon 3 puts up pretty competitive numbers," Mathews wrote. "In
practical surfing on my core web apps and sites? It's just as fast as Chrome,
if not just a hair faster."
Mathews reasons that the big improvement in Maxthon's speed comes from the
addition of the WebKit rendering engine riding in tandem with the engine Max
has used for years, Trident. "Although Trident is slower than WebKit, we're
keeping it in Max-3 because it's required for hundreds of thousands of web
pages to display correctly," said Jeff Chen, CEO of Maxthon. Chrome and
Apple's Safari also use the Webkit rendering engine.
The hybrid engine in Max-3 is controlled by an automatic switching
mechanism that senses what kind of page the browser is retrieving and switches
between Retro Mode (Trident) and Ultra Mode (Webkit) as needed.
When Max-3 is released in early 2010, it is expected to have a range of
innovative, new features that have become the trademark of Maxthon browsers.
"With WebKit now under the hood, Maxthon 3 looks like it's ready to make
some serious noise. Enthusiasts, get ready -- this is going to be a fun year
when it comes to browsers," Mathews wrote.
For more information, please contact:
Western Hemisphere
Ron White
Tel: +1-210-683-1444
Email: ron@maxthon.com
http://twitter.com/Maxthonguy
Eastern Hemisphere:
firs73 a.k.a Selena
Email: firs73@maxthon.net
http://twitter.com/firs73
SOURCE Maxthon
http://tinyurl.com/download-squad-maxthon
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